Now a bustling city of more than 50,000 residents, Cleveland Heights, situated just six miles from Clevelands Public Square, boasts a history that begins well before its own incorporation. The region was once home to Native American tribes including the Erie and Seneca, and stalwart pioneers established settlements in the area as early as the late eighteenth century. In the postCivil War period, as Cleveland was becoming an industrial metropolis, affluent residents began moving to the newly developed garden suburbs, anxious to live closer to nature and farther from the smoky city and its increasingly diverse population. Born of this same desire, Cleveland Heights was founded in 1901. Here, in this isolated countryside owned by substantial families like the Silsbys, Minors, Comptons, and Taylors, entrepreneurs and city officials envisioned a clean and comfortable suburb for Clevelands elite. Officially designated a city in 1921, Cleveland Heights quickly became not the homogenized
